Senior Lecturer in Economics, Director for Economic Education & Financial Literacy (CEEFL)
Phone: 903.566.7459
Email: sdoty@uttyler.edu
Building: BUS 240
Department: Social Sciences
Susan Doty
Degrees
- MBA in Management, emphasis in Finance, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1982
- BA in Biology, minor in Education, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1978
Research Interests: Economic Education, Financial Literacy, Effects of Technology
Teaching Interests: Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics,
Honors Economics, Economics Issues and Policy, Economics of Education, Economics of
Technology and Innovation
Biography
Susan Doty is the founding director of the Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy
at The University of Texas at Tyler, where she serves on the economics faculty as
a senior lecturer and undergraduate economics advisor. Prior to starting the CEEFL
at UT Tyler, she started a similar center at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Both university centers, in their respective states, have been recognized for their
rapid growth in teacher outreach. She serves on the executive committee for the National
Association of Economic Educators (NAEE) and is currently its president-elect. Concurrently,
she serves as a board member both for the Council for Economic Education in New York
(CEE) and the Texas Council on Economic Education in Houston (TCEE.)
She completed her undergraduate work in biology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts
and has an MBA from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She spent a first
career in the biotechnology industry, where she was a champion of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Susan has been teaching economics and personal finance for over 25 years and is in
her 8th year at UT Tyler. She has taught previously at the Sam Walton School of Business
at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the Maxwell School of Public Policy
at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and at the University of Southern Mississippi
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Her professional interests are in instructional design, especially the use of technology
in the classroom, and economic and financial literacy, and professional development
in P-20 education. Susan has been recognized for outstanding teaching and was a recipient
of the 2015 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and the
2016 UT Tyler Student Engagement Partnership Award. She is a founding fellow and
president-elect of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at The University of Texas
at Tyler. She is the mother of four and grandmother of two and her personal interests
include reading, travel, gardening, birdwatching and duplicate bridge.
Curriculum Vitae